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So it sounds like following Atsushi's sudden death in October, Toshiya inherited... a pair of shoes.

Fun fact: Atsushi Sakurai and Toshiya were roughly the same height, so my guess is that they wore the same shoe size.

Two weeks ago, before leaving Japan, our darling bassist posted this picture of his shoes waiting at an airport.

The caption read only "Traveling together. Let's go."

We all thought the "together" meant "as a band". With Dir en Grey. All the greys boarding the same Dir en Plane.

Right? Nope. There was more to it.

At the end of the tour, he posted a picture of his feet wearing the same shoes. This time, the caption read:

"We ended the European Tour, and we are about to come back to Japan. I traveled around Poland, France, England and Germany in these shoes, which I got as memento of you. I was happy when I saw a fan wearing your T-shirt in London. Let's go back together to Japan, Sakurai, in this season when cherry blossoms bloom."

Source: @emilyxygraphy on IG

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